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Sector benchmark

You see every sector's ratios. For a company you see every ratio over five financial years, with its place among its sector peers. The report is ready to print for your client.

Sector · NACE 11

Beverages

The table shows every ratio of the sector for financial year 2025, with the median and the middle half of the companies and the median over the last years. Compare a company of this sector with it.

All sectors
Ratios of NACE 11, financial year 2025
Ratio Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Median 2021 to 2025 Accounts
SolvencySolvency-7.4% 22.1% 50.8% 595
Debt to equitySolvency-1.58 0.70 2.77 587
Long-term debt ratioSolvency-0.36 0.31 1.53 373
Interest coverageSolvency-3.31 4.79 21.11 549
Current ratioLiquidity0.64 1.26 2.28 595
Quick ratioLiquidity0.30 0.72 1.48 595
Working-capital ratioLiquidity-20.0% 10.5% 36.3% 597
Return on equityProfitability-15.0% 3.0% 20.7% 412
Return on assetsProfitability-13.3% -0.7% 5.0% 600
Net marginProfitability-0.5% 2.4% 10.8% 74
EBITDA marginProfitability7.5% 15.3% 24.8% 71
Gross marginProfitability27.5% 50.5% 74.5% 74
Days sales outstandingCredit terms40 days 54 days 75 days 74
Days payable outstandingCredit terms37 days 69 days 101 days 80
Days inventoryCredit terms63 days 151 days 232 days 72

A quarter of the companies sit below the lower quartile, a quarter above the upper quartile. The figures come from every schema's own (statutory) accounts. A financial year counts once it holds at least half as many accounts as the year before. For financial year 2026, 30 accounts have been filed so far.

Report contents for a company

Fifteen ratios

You see solvency, leverage, liquidity, returns, margins and credit terms from the filed annual accounts.

Real sector peers

Each financial year is set against the quartiles of every Belgian company in the same NACE division or class, of the same size if you like.

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Every ratio is in a sentence your client understands, with a percentile bar and five years of history. You can print the report or save it as PDF.